Reading 3IECP

Spring 2013

Nikki Mattson

Agenda

Collegian + Idiom

VP 11

SRA

5B text

Rest of Semester

Wednesday = TOEFL (no class)

Friday = Newspaper presentation (Maria, 3A) (Seung Un and Kyonghee, 3B)

Monday = Unit 5 test (only comprehension) and VP 11 quiz)

Wednesday = Newspaper presentation (Ven, 3A) (Abdulrahman, 3B)

Friday = Newspaper presentation (Seung Jun, 3A) (Mohammed, 3B)

Collegian and Idiom

Read “Students should feel comfortable speaking up if help is needed.”

Orally summarize what you read with your partner.

Discuss your thoughts on the article + each partner prepare one opinion or question to share with the class.

Find the idiom “can go a long way.” What do you think it means?

Vocabulary Power – Ch. 11

Pronounce and discuss

Check answers with a partner

Compare answers

If there is disagreement, try to reach consensus

Let Nikki know if you have questions

Complete “Words in Discussion” (2 groups – Morgan and Nikki )

SRA

Pre-reading

Look at the picture on RE pg. 80. What does it bring to mind? What do you think is happening in the picture?

Read the paragraph under the picture. (whole class) Can you answer any of the questions in the second half of the paragraph?

Complete the matching activity. (whole class)

Explorers of the Pacific Ocean

• Video

According to the professor..

1)Why didn’t people before the Lapitas explore beyond the Solomon Islands?2)What allowed the Lapita people to explore more than what had been explored before?3)What role might the Lapita’s ranked society have played in their exploration?

• Listen to audio cd (paragraph by paragraph). Tell your partner what you understand about each paragraph.

• Answer the discussion questions in small groups (Morgan and Nikki facilitating)

• Discussion Questions• 1. If scientists can’t find any intact canoes, are their theories credible?• 2. In your opinion, what is the most important skill/tool that the Lapita needed

to make these voyages?• 3. What is the best way to learn more about the Lapita people?• 4. Do you think it is a waste of time to study historical occurrences (such as

the Lapita’s exploration), when it is in the past. After all, the past is the past, right?

• 5. If you had the chance, would you like to try to make a voyage (long, dangerous, adventurous, etc.) like the Lapita people did?

• 6. If you could live with the Lapita people or the Polynesians, who would you live with? Why?

• 7. How do you think Lapita people and Polynesians built their canoes?• 8. What other tools/skills do you think the Polynesians and Lapitas relied on

for their successful navigation?• 9. Do you think that we have discovered every piece of land in the world? Or,

the next step is to discover life in other planets??• 10. For how long do you think these travelers stayed at sea?• 11. How do you think these travelers entertained themselves during the

journeys?!

• VP 11 Quiz (Monday)